Week 9: Wednesday

Good morning!

I had a terrible sleep last night - still awake at 4am!  But I am up at 8am so time for my morning routine!

coffee
shower and dress
put on load of washing
reload dishwasher, shine sink, wipe benches and sweep

- finish budget (pay rego)

so I ended up on the phone to my sister all day and got nothing done!

Food:

coffee
2 boiled eggs, tomato relish and feta
tin of salmon
100g steak with some mushrooms and veg
scoop of peanut butter
cheese, baked beans, crackers, 3 mini mars bars, glass of milk

I read up on the Fast800 diet after my sis raved about it, but omg.  I could handle being hungry and managed to get to bedtime with 800cals with a great macronutrient spread. But come bed time I just couldn't deal with it and tried to just eat a little bit to help me sleep - and the last line of my food diary chronicles my decent into hell! lol

Seriously though, it's not normal to be that hungry at bedtime!  I was thinking of doing 12 weeks of this but no way!  I might just try doing 5:2 - so two days a week of restriction, and hope I get better at it! For now, I'm going to try being a little more 'keto' and see how that goes but really, it's just experimenting at this stage!

Week 9 Tuesday

Good news today, my work contact turned up so I need to get that printed and returned! Finally have a regular 6 mth casual contract for 30hrs a week!

Just a few jobs for today:

Kitchen
- stack dishwasher
- clean sink and wipe benches
- sweep floor

- tidy flours and breakfast cereals
- make list of containers needed
- tidy fridge

Lounge/Office
- sort excess stuff into piles to sort
- pick up rubbish

Storage area
- move Christmas tree
- pack away breakables for moving

Main Bedroom
- make bed 

Dining
- set table

Other
- list of lightbulbs needed for whole house
- dinner shopping list
- hang out washing

Food

coffee and oats for breakfast (at  noon!)

pie

choc rice cakes and seaweed

honey mustard chicken for dinner

icecream and milo for dessert

baked beans

milo and cheese/cracker snacks (x2)

step count under 5K

no exercise

Summary

Had a very blah day but still got things done!  

Week 9 Monday

Hello Monday!

As I am waiting for my new work contract, it's time to do some housework!

To do List for the morning

- clean and shine the sink
- wipe kitchen benches
- sweep floor
- mop

- put away clothes in my room
- vacuum my room

- clean up two boxes for clothes
- empty left side of storage cupboard and reduce my 'too small' clothes 
- pack too small clothes into boxes neatly and store by size!

- do laundry  2 loads

- tidy lounge
-  clear off coffee table and dust tv bench
- vacuum and sweep ( lounge as well)

Food Diary

2x coffee
oats (packet)

pizza with a glass of peps

hamburger with cheese


milk and cookies choc (3 rows)
choc rice cakes and seaweed
baked beans

Food Diary: Week 8

I'm starting a bit late in the week so no diary for Monday through Thursday!

Wednesday Weigh-in: 72.2kg (down 2.7kg overall)!

Friday: 

School holidays start today!

Work  hours: none

Food:

Breakfast - egg on toast

Lunch - beef wrap with tomato relish

Dinner - Ginger Salmon Stirfry (12wbt)

Snacks

choc and tea
apple
choc rice cakes and seaweed
rice cakes (flavoured)

Water: 3 cups

Step Count: 10K

Exercise: 4km walk

Saturday:

Hockey game then off to the beach!

Food:

Breakfast - egg on toast

Lunch - chips and potato scollops

Dinner - Chicken Mac and cheese (12wbt)

Snacks

3x choc rice cakes and 2x seaweed

1/3 Mars Bar and a handful of Burger Rings

mandarin

baked beans

Water: 1 750mL bottle

Step Count: 11K

Exercise: Walked Bluff Point!

Sunday:

Food:

Breakfast - oats

Lunch - steamed fish and salad

Dinner - Roast Chicken with pumpkin and potato

Snacks

choc and tea

choc and rice cakes

seaweed

rice cakes

Water: none

Step Count: 5k

Overall Summary:

I think I need to watch my snacking and stick with more substantial snacks that fill me up rather then the rice cake snacks!

My Health Journey: Tracking Progress

There is nothing like progress to motivate!

Which is why I want to keep track of my progress as much as possible.

I know what I want to track right now, and it will no doubt change as my priorities change.

Right now I want to keep track of my scale weight, my measurements, and my running goals.

I'm starting with an excel sheet for all the detailed information.

There are now about 26 weeks until the New Year (a Wednesday) so I've done all the tables up until then, and highlighted which weeks are part of the 12wbt challenge.  I have four weeks left on the current challenge.  I will need to lose about 1kg per week for 16 weeks then half a kilo a week for 10 weeks to hit 50kg on the 1st of January 2020.

Tracking my Weight Loss and Measurements

Having a Fitbit and compatible WIFI scales means I don't have to record my weight, I just jump on the scale each Wednesday morning.  I have my excel tracker as well so I will be updating that with my weight each week and it will give me my weight lost that week, and weight lost overall. I'm using my highest weight of 74.9kg from 1st May as my starting point.

Every four weeks I also measure neck, bust, arm, belly, waist, hip, and thigh. With those measurements I can calculate waist to hip ratio, and can do body fat calculations when I want to.  Note that I do belly and waist due to my natural waist being higher then my belly, and the measurements being significantly different!  

Tracking my Distance

I've renewed my Run Down Under (now Run the World)  membership which will allow me to easily track how much I run. I use my Fitbit to track my run, which imports to Strava and then RDU. I get the occasional reward to keep me going, and a medal each year.

I've currently travelled 564km with 27km to go on my Newcastle to Forster leg!

I'd have to do 17km a week to get up to 1000km by the end of the year. I wonder if I can do that? Four 4km walks a week, or three 5km training runs and a quick walk, and if I get in a few longer runs as the year progresses, I could get there!  I think that will be my fitness goal! But it will be challenging!  No missing any weeks!

I'm kind of excited to get started now!

I believe I can and will do this so let's go!